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Kings and Connoisseurs : Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe / Jonathan Brown.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts ; 35Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©1996Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) : 226 b/w illusContent type:
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  • 9780691252865
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 759.9/4/0744 23/eng/20231019
LOC classification:
  • N5240
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- I. Charles I and The Whitehall Group -- II. The Sale of the Century -- III. "The Greatest Amateur of Paintings among the Princes of the World" -- IV. "Amator artis pictoriae:" Archduke Leopold William and Picture Collecting in Flanders -- V. Reasons of State -- VI. The Prestige of Painting -- Postscript: Where Have All the Masterpieces Gone? An Essay on the Market for Old Pictures, 1700–1995 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Photographic Acknowledgments
Summary: A vivid and exciting account of royal collectors, art dealers, connoisseurs, and the rise of old master paintingsOld master paintings are among the most valuable and prestigious of the visual arts, and the best examples command the highest prices of any luxury commodity. In Kings and Connoisseurs, Jonathan Brown tells the story of how painting rose to this exalted status. The transformation of painting from an inexpensive to a costly art form reached a crucial stage in the royal courts of Europe in the seventeenth century, where rulers and aristocrats assembled huge collections, often in short periods of time. By comparing collecting and collectors at these courts, Brown explains the formation of new attitudes toward pictures, as well as the mechanisms that supported the enterprise of collecting, including the emergence of the art dealer, the development of connoisseurship, and the publication of sumptuous picture books of various collections. The result is an exciting narrative of greed and passion, played out against a background of international politics and intrigue.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- I. Charles I and The Whitehall Group -- II. The Sale of the Century -- III. "The Greatest Amateur of Paintings among the Princes of the World" -- IV. "Amator artis pictoriae:" Archduke Leopold William and Picture Collecting in Flanders -- V. Reasons of State -- VI. The Prestige of Painting -- Postscript: Where Have All the Masterpieces Gone? An Essay on the Market for Old Pictures, 1700–1995 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Photographic Acknowledgments

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A vivid and exciting account of royal collectors, art dealers, connoisseurs, and the rise of old master paintingsOld master paintings are among the most valuable and prestigious of the visual arts, and the best examples command the highest prices of any luxury commodity. In Kings and Connoisseurs, Jonathan Brown tells the story of how painting rose to this exalted status. The transformation of painting from an inexpensive to a costly art form reached a crucial stage in the royal courts of Europe in the seventeenth century, where rulers and aristocrats assembled huge collections, often in short periods of time. By comparing collecting and collectors at these courts, Brown explains the formation of new attitudes toward pictures, as well as the mechanisms that supported the enterprise of collecting, including the emergence of the art dealer, the development of connoisseurship, and the publication of sumptuous picture books of various collections. The result is an exciting narrative of greed and passion, played out against a background of international politics and intrigue.

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In English.

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